----- Original Message ----- | On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> | wrote: | > ----- Original Message ----- | > | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > | > It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ... | | > | rsh was deprecated 10+ years ago, along with all the other r | > | things... | > | they aren't even remotely secure and using them is sloppy | > | practice, | > | even | > | on a private network. | | > Tell that to the engineering software vendors who require the | > service | > in order to properly operate. If I didn't already know that, | > obviously | > I wouldn't be posting this as I use SSH keys for most other | > services. | | I am exactly in the same situation. Our IT department allows access to | their tape archiver only by way of '/usr/bin/rsh server command'. For | well >15 years now. | | In my case, what I needed to get it to work was : | | (1) install /usr/bin/rsh by 'yum install rsh' | | (2) Add the following to iptables : | | -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -s [server IP] --dport | 1011:1023 -j ACCEPT | | You may want to adjust the port range by examining the ports used for | inbound connections from the server. | | Hope this helps, | | Akemi Did you install just @core? I have done @core as described earlier with rsh and rsh-server and it just hangs so I'm missing something. On the workstation install it works using the exact same setup so I think I'm missing a package somewhere, I'm just not sure which one. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the best I can with the talent I have